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[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 24 points 1 week ago

Even an Oxford comma couldn't save that one.

[-] waldfee@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

relevant xkcd My all-time favorite example of syntactic ambiguity comes from Wikipedia: 'Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte.'

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